🆚 Caddy vs. Lighttpd
- 📈 Caddy is much more popular than Lighttpd.
- 🌎 Caddy is more popular in Germany, the United States, and the Netherlands.
- 🌍 Lighttpd is more popular in Russia, Argentina, and Latvia.
Caddy
LighttpdType
About
Caddy is an open-source multi-platform web server written in 
Go with built-in support for automatic HTTPS and modern web protocols.
It supports automatic TLS management with providers such as Let's Encrypt and ZeroSSL, includes a built-in reverse proxy with load balancing, offers configuration through the human-readable Caddyfile or a 
JSON-based REST API, and features a modular architecture that can be extended with plugins.
Lighttpd (pronounced /lighty/) is an open-source web server optimized for high performance environments and low resource usage.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Germany in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Belgium in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Austria in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Romania in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Finland in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Russia in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Argentina in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Germany in the Web Servers category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in the Czech Republic in the Web Servers category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in the Netherlands in the Web Servers category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Tengine🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,367,747 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.